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SIGN, ADVERTISING CARD, m. No. 386,788 Patented July 24, 1888.

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THEODORE P. HEINEMANN, OF CONN ERSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO FRANCIS T. ROOTS, OF SAME PLACE.

SIGN, ADVERTlSlNG-CARD, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,780, dated July 24. 1888. Application filed August 18, 181:7. Serial No. 247.241. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: and attractive advertising signs or cards pro- Be it known that I, THEODORE P. HEINE- duced. MANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resi- The first step in my process is to take a thin dent of Connersville, in the county of Fayette sheet of paper of the proper width of the de- 55 and State of Indiana, have invented certain sired sign or card, and flute or crimp it in the new and useful Improvements in Signs, Adverform of the proposed sign. One means of dotising-Cards, &c., of which the following is a ing this is by the rolls A A, Fig. 4. The sheet specification. B is first passed through these rolls and after- My invention relates to variable signs and ward pressed to the form shown in Fig. 5. 6o the means for producing the same. Its object This is readily done by first placing a strip of is a cheap sign or card for advertising purpaper, C, upon a table or board, then uniting poses. the two strips at the ends-say at c. The strip The invention will be first fully described in B is then folded, forming the ribs I), using for connection with the accompanying drawings, this purpose, for convenience, blocks or strips 15 and then particularly referred to and pointed D, until the sign-blank has been formed of the out in the claims. proper length. Then the ribs b are pressed Referring to the drawings, in which him down to one side, as seen in Fig. (3, and the parts areindicated by similar reference-letters letters or characters which are to form the dewherever they occur throughout the various sign or sign when looking from the right are 20 views, Figurel is a front elevationofmysign. drawn or painted the same as if they were Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same. Fig. to appear upon the flat surface. They will ap- 3 is a plan view of the blank from which my pear the same when looking from the right of sign is folded. Fig. 4 represents in end view the sign when the ribs 1) are erected at righta pair of rolls for preliminarily crimping the angles to the base, as in Fig. 5. The ribs 1) 7 2 sheet preparatory to preparing the design. are then turned to the right, describing half a Fig. 5 is an edge elevation of the folded blank, circle, and the design or characters which are showing the first step in the preparation of to appear when looking from theleft are drawn the blank for receiving the design. Fig. 6 is or painted. After this operation the strips 13 a similar View showing the blank folded for are straightened out and the ribs Z) reversed, 9 the second step, and Fig. 7 shows the blank as seen in Fig. 7, and for convenience folded folded for the last step in the preparation of down flat, as seen at b. Upon the flat upper the design. surface opposite the ribs and upon the spaces Signs ofthischaracter heretofore made have h, which now form a practically-continu0ns been formed of an ordinary sign-board having surface, the design or sign, which is to show 5 annmberof woodormctalstrips placed atright when standing directly in front of the sign, is angles tothe base or sign-board, oneside of the drawn or painted. After this is completed, the slats having one set of characters or designs strip B is straightened out, as seen in Fig. 3. upon them, the opposite sides different char- I then have the design for making the block actersor designs, whil'ethe spaces on the board or matrix from which the strips are to be 40 between the slats were painted in still different printed to form the particular sign, which characters or designs. These signs are very strips, when folded upon the lines 0, will give attractive, but quite expensive. I have conthe triplicate sign or card. This design may trived a means by which the three different be placed upon a lithographic stone, or type, characters or designs may be printed byany of or matrix, orit may be made in any well-known 5 the well-known processes at one operation upon way. It should be nndersto0d,when referring a straight sheet, and then by folding the sheet to Fig. 3, that I have only shown the two letters upon predetermined lines and securing the G and S, S being to show when standing to the folded sheet in position by any we1lkn0wn left of the sign, and O to show when standing means the sign is completed. The particular directly in front of it. For elearness, the third r00 50 designs being once obtained by any process, letter is not shown; but the spaces for it are they can rapidly be duplicated, and very cheap left blank, and are indicated by f.

If an electroplate is made for printing the blank strip B for the proposed sign, I prefer to leave the lines 6 standing up sharp, as when the strip is printed these sharp edges will define the lines upon which the blank is to be folded.

As these signs are principally intended for cheap advertising-mediums to be hung up in stores, those I have made have been constructed of paper-or similar fibrous material, and I prefer to form the sign, after the blank is lithographed or printed, in the following manner: I form or fold the materiahas shown in Fig. 5; then paste a strip of paper or cloth, as O, entirely across the bottom of the sign, and afterward frame it, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. If the sign is intended for outside use,it is better to form it out of light sheet metal, or, if formed of paper or similar fibrous material, then they should be varnished or coated with some water-proof material. I

What I claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ihe sign-blank hereinbefore described, having the folding lines e, and having the three characters or designs printed thereon, one on the spaces f, another on spaces 9, and the third on spaces h, so that when the blank is folded the three will show, each from a different position, substantially as described.

2. The improved sign hereinbefore described, consisting of the sheet B, folded to form the ribs 12, and having the spaces between the ribs and the opposite sides of the ribs painted or ornamented in the manner set forth.

THEODORE P. HEINEMANN.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. W. FLEMING, G. O. FLOR-EA. 

